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adjective

Stout adj. (compar. stouter; superl. stoutest)

Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless. "With hearts stern and stout." "A stouter champion never handled sword." "He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous man." "The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout."

Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. (Archaic) "Your words have been stout against me." "Commonly... they that be rich are lofty and stout."

Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.

Large; bulky; corpulent.

Synonyms: Stout, Corpulent, Portly. Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently, especially in England, the idea has been carried still further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: "The stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size." In America, stout is still commonly used in the original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout pole.

noun

stout n. A strong, dark malt brew having a higher percentage of hops than porter; strong porter; a popular variety sold in the U. S. is Guinness' stout.

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"Stout" Quotes from Famous Books

... long interregnum, and the brothers, taking with them the son of Nicolo, the young Marco, then a stout lad, began to retrace their steps to Cathay, despairing of being able to enlist the one hundred priests which the Great Khan had asked them to borrow for missionary purposes ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various

... Six boards o' gooid stout ellum Is what I'll want to-morn; Then lay me low i' t' church-yard Aneath t' owd crooked thorn. I'll have no funeral sarvice When I'm browt down below, But let 'em touzle t' bells like mad At ...

— Songs of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman

... their choice; Pour in your rabble to each factious town, And Freedom's sounds, by shouting numbers drown, Till Thames' unpeopled waves by READING glide, Without one bargeman left to chear the tide; And NEWBURY's desart streets lament in vain, Their servile inmates gone to swell your train. Stout FERDINANDO, your obsequious slave, Once a rude ruffian, now a pliant knave, With Stentor's voice shall swell your pageant pride, And boldly thunder nonsense on your side: The gentle Colonel, simpering SELLWOOD too, His face with port and patriot-ardor ...

— An Heroic Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Craven (3rd Ed.) • William Combe

... and brightest, and best"—was a woman of uncertain age, tall and stout, strong and strapping, and adorned with a head of violent red hair and a pair of green spectacles. Minus these two disagreeable items, she was a highly respectable woman, with a grave, shrewd face, and a portly person wrapped in a ...

— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming

... paid numerous visits to the ship, to bring away things we might require; and we were able to afford our friends what was to them an almost inexhaustible supply of wood. Without the aid of our saws and hatchets they could not cut away the stout timbers and planks; and as we had removed the bulkheads and lining of the ship, with the remaining spars, their honesty was not as much tempted as it otherwise ...

— Peter the Whaler • W.H.G. Kingston

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